Preview Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience7.7% of reviews
Neutral3.0% of reviews
Negative experience89.2% of reviews

~ Based on 1,086 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Preview

Is Preview Safe?

Preview does not appear safe based on available data. AppsHunter Safety Score for Preview is 39/100.

This assessment is based on 2,013 user ratings, with an App Store average of 1.9/5.

Safety Analysis

20.2% of ratings point to a safe experience
4.5% of ratings suggest some concerns
75.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 1,977 App Store ratings for Preview.

Is Preview Legit?

Preview appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Preview is 93/100.

Based on 93 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Fix the highlighter

Recently updated to the newest version of iOS and it changed the way documents appear when highlighted. I use this app all the time and it was better before I did the most recent update. Instead of highlighting text it covers the text with color and now actually makes it harder to read when highlighted.
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Why is it on my phone?

Stop downloading apps to my phone with each update. I don’t need this app and I am not appreciative at finding more of my storage being used with apps I didn’t download. Might be time to try an android.

BUG PLATFORM!

So whenever I’m trying to redesign a childhood character from an app, this thing just happens. It’s like, going to the use the markers and then I click on the moving pens, I try to move or size them, they move the opposite direction when I don’t want and it’s annoying. Can you at least fix this problem?
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Full of bugs and random crashes

I have never used a software this much buggy

I resent its existence

Previously I was able to view documents without issue within whatever app I was using. This app is a pointless and unnecessary waste of time and space.

Files become too large

After editing with Apple Pencil on iPad files become too large und frequent app crashes are really common, it is not native so if I open pdf in files app then all PDF annotation will convert to image so I cannot erase anything

Crashes when converting pdf to images

Crash when converting password protected pdf to image

What’s the point

Now you can’t preview files in the files app, your taken to this cumbersome app. This is not the Apple way. Who approved this needs to use an iPhone and see for themselves this is a step back.

Why oh why? Deleted

I cannot see what the point of this app is, or why it was automatically installed with the iOS26 update, it just makes viewing files from the files app so much more of a chore than it actually needs to be.

Mercifully, it can be deleted though, and needless to say, that’s exactly what I’ve done.

Order has been restored.
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How do i delete

I never use this how do i delete

The little magnifying thing is so fun

Yeah yeah, file viewer whatever. However, being able to drag around the little magnifier on the home page of the app has got to be the best feature of an apple app since iOS 5. It’s obvious someone had fun here, and I was starting to believe it wasn’t possible. Give us MORE!! These little touches are why people love iOS.
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Keeps crashing

Black screen followed by a crash after 10s

Doesn’t work

Glitches and it never looks like description and images but still ⭐️ ⭐ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐

App icons make no sense

As a long time user of Preview, the app icons make no sense, which disrupts my work flow because I have to search for my articles and documents on my computer anytime I navigate away (I like to have my windows minimize into apps for neatness). I’m sure apple realizes that people use the preview app primarily to view and edit pdfs, there are other programs specifically for editing images. I say this because the new app icon resembles a camera lenses. But it’s suppose to be a magnifying glass, I’ve heard. How many years of human history has it been since magnifying glasses (or more niche, “loupes”) were used to read documents that this would be intuitive to anyone? More user testing and user feedback please. This SUCKS.
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Terrible app

Terrible app , wish I never updated my iPod, used it for work. Now it sucks with constant crashes and lagging… frustrating 8(

App

Worst app, having a lot of issues while editing pdf

Stupid

Should be native and baked into the OS.

not working

recently i have been experiencing so much trouble with this app. i would hate it if you were in a meeting and it started crashing. i have experienced it dying when i’m in class and i lose all my notes.

Need a lot of improvement

Crashes and has all kinds of glitches. One being when I open documents and use the fill typing feature it has been duplicating the text. So then I delete the extra text, but then I go back to the document later and everything has been deleted. Also does not do a good job saving changes. The fill feature needs to be able to set a font size for the whole document. Not have to do each text box individually.
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Fun

Fun to play around with the circular thingy